(rants and observations on outsider culture, music & cinema in The Big Wet)

Sunday, August 04, 2013

Ray Harryhausen tribute begins tonight!

Starting tonight at the Pacific Cinematheque: a double-bill of two of the best-loved Ray Harryhausen films, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts! Great stuff (though the above image is from neither, but The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Gary Floyd has me thinking of Kali lately, what can I say...). When I was a kid, no one instilled in me a sense of the wonder of cinema like Harryhausen (though Forrest J. Ackerman, also departed, helped immeasurably). I recently revisited both of these films and was pleased to see how well they held up, not just as effects vehicles, but as storytelling...

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About Me

Writer, aging punk, cinephile. Fan of the obscure and outside. ESL teacher, occasional used bookstore guy; zombie when the mood strikes me. Haven't been based in Vancouver for awhile now but "Alienated In The Metrotown Area" is an even worse blogname than I already have. And I still have ties to Maple Ridge (sigh).